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  • 2022 8

    1. 6 August 2022 — Dieter Rams on good design (from a speech in 1976)
    2. 5 August 2022 — Designing for the last earth
    3. 1 August 2022 — Adam J. Kurtz; Let People Live
    4. 29 August 2021 — Alistair Smith on times of change
    5. 28 August 2021 — How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
    6. 24 August 2021 — MANIAC
    7. 10 August 2021 — The Constant Gardeners
    8. 1 August 2021 — Sanctuaries of Silence

  • 2022 7

    1. 26 July 2022 — Surveillance Capitalism I: How digital platforms watch, track & control you
    2. 26 July 2022 — Hyperlink maximalism
    3. 25 July 2022 — Yamaha – Stepping Out of the Slate
    4. 25 July 2022 — Acoustic Sounds Behind The Scenes
    5. 24 July 2022 — Always On: The Hidden Labor We Do Every Day
    6. 24 July 2022 — Oliver Burkeman’s last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life
    7. 24 July 2022 — Universal Everything for Hyundai Motorstudio – Ocean
    8. 22 July 2022 — Haruki Murakami in Norwegian Wood
    9. 17 July 2022 — Carl Sagen’s Pale Blue Dot
    10. 11 July 2022 — The Everything Manifesto
    11. 10 July 2022 — FKJ: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
    12. 9 July 2022 — People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One
    13. 8 July 2022 — Light & Magic | Official Trailer | Disney+
    14. 8 July 2022 — Dune | Otherworldly Wears
    15. 4 July 2022 — Quotes on time and filmmaking by Chantal Akerman
    16. 3 July 2022 — Letters to a Young Technologist
    17. 27 July 2021 — Fragile
    18. 23 July 2021 — Neil Gaiman “Make good art”
    19. 22 July 2021 — livMatS Pavilion
    20. 18 July 2021 — ‘AuT’ (logo, construction)
    21. 9 July 2021 — Xavier Rudd – Stoney Creek
    22. 7 July 2021 — Pina Bausch on fragility

  • 2022 6

    1. 30 June 2022 — The slow creep of mediocrity
    2. 27 June 2022 — Beyoncé – BREAK MY SOUL (Official Lyric Video)
    3. 27 June 2022 — Confessions of a Burnt Out Over-Achiever
    4. 26 June 2022 — The Art of Life
    5. 26 June 2022 — On getting home (author unknown)
    6. 26 June 2022 — earth.fm
    7. 26 June 2022 — Fishpeople | Lives Transformed by the Sea
    8. 6 June 2022 — Rebeka Arce on work and life
    9. 5 June 2022 — On The Beach (1985)
    10. 3 June 2022 — Digital Empires: Programmierte Ungerechtigkeit
    11. 3 June 2022 — The AI that creates any picture you want
    12. 2 June 2022 — Howard Zinn: To Be Hopeful in Bad Times
    13. 1 June 2022 — Bo Burnham – Inside Outtakes
    14. 30 June 2021 — Austin Kleon on Blogging as a forgiving medium
    15. 28 June 2021 — Adrienne Maree Brown on time
    16. 28 June 2021 — Born to be Mild
    17. 28 June 2021 — The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
    18. 18 June 2021 — camera test 01200420
    19. 17 June 2021 — All you need is 5 fonts
    20. 8 June 2021 — Thomas Szasz on learning
    21. 7 June 2021 — Above&Below – Aquateque
    22. 5 June 2021 — Bo Burnham – Inside

  • 2022 5

    1. 30 May 2022 — James Dyson Answers Design Questions
    2. 27 May 2022 — Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design
    3. 27 May 2022 — Phoebe Bridgers – Sidelines
    4. 27 May 2022 — Machiya, traditionelle Baukunst aus Japan | Stadt, Land, Kunst | ARTE
    5. 25 May 2022 — Bo Burnham on his body of work
    6. 20 May 2022 — Windows
    7. 15 May 2022 — Publish Something Online
    8. 13 May 2022 — Alligatoah feat. Felix Brummer – Beinebrechen (Live von “Friends of Alligatoah – Die Show”)
    9. 10 May 2022 — The Rise and Fall of Cultural Appropriation
    10. 6 May 2022 — Aldous Huxley on the Secret of Genius
    11. 5 May 2022 — LDT circular logo construction
    12. 5 May 2022 — The Beauty of Dune
    13. 4 May 2022 — Sigrid, Bring Me The Horizon – Bad Life
    14. 4 May 2022 — TE-LAB
    15. 26 May 2021 — ‘noiseandvoid’ (logo, clean version)
    16. 20 May 2021 — Dieter Rams über die Digita­­lisie­r­ung
    17. 20 May 2021 — ‘Virtuelle Kultur’ (logo, clean version)
    18. 18 May 2021 — ❤️☠️🤖
    19. 13 May 2021 — Frank Chimero on the things that nourish your work
    20. 11 May 2021 — The world needs a tech diet
    21. 4 May 2021 — Bruce Mau on knowing the answers
    22. 3 May 2021 — The erosion of personal ownership

  • 2022 4

    1. 26 April 2022 — Google Little Signals
    2. 24 April 2022 — Hiroshi Sugimoto on having a vision
    3. 16 April 2022 — AuT mood
    4. 16 April 2022 — Bo Burnham, Arcade Fire, and the Infinite Dread of the Internet
    5. 14 April 2022 — Dune (2021) VFX Breakdown
    6. 13 April 2022 — Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Trailer
    7. 12 April 2022 — Mary Oliver on joy
    8. 10 April 2022 — Nina Simone, HONNE – My Baby Just Cares For Me (HONNE Remix)
    9. 9 April 2022 — Beautiful Ramen packaging by 画面
    10. 5 April 2022 — noiseandvoid (logo, square variant, update 2)
    11. 3 April 2022 — Collected quotes by Claude Monet
    12. 28 April 2021 — Her
    13. 20 April 2021 — Gaspard Augé – Force Majeure
    14. 16 April 2021 — The Revolt
    15. 12 April 2021 — Accessibility Developer Guide
    16. 8 April 2021 — Wilson Minor “When We Build”
    17. 8 April 2021 — Web design as architecture
    18. 7 April 2021 — Monocle’s digital decency manifesto

  • 2022 3

    1. 29 March 2022 — Why making good work is no longer enough
    2. 29 March 2022 — We need more Calm Design
    3. 23 March 2022 — Why ‘The Batman’ Is So Beautiful
    4. 22 March 2022 — History Of Ideas: Wabi-sabi
    5. 10 March 2022 — ayh logo
    6. 10 March 2022 — KUMMER feat. Fred Rabe – Der letzte Song (Alles wird gut)
    7. 5 March 2022 — Alles war schön und nichts tat weh
    8. 31 March 2021 — Responsibility is resistance

  • 2022 2

    1. 27 February 2022 — 白 (white)
    2. 23 February 2022 — Continuum by Krista Kim
    3. 21 February 2022 — ‘noiseandvoid’ (logo, square variant)
    4. 14 February 2022 — 2016 Tony Awards Acceptance Speech from Lin-Manuel Miranda
    5. 12 February 2022 — Treeline
    6. 12 February 2022 — Moon drawings
    7. 10 February 2022 — Made To Measure
    8. 8 February 2022 — Beyond Human-Centered Design
    9. 3 February 2022 — Gisbert zu Knyphausen – Ich bin Freund von Klischees und funkelnden Sternen
    10. 5 February 2021 — Yanagi Soetsu, Maximen für Handwerker (1926)
    11. 4 February 2021 — Small Seasons

  • 2022 1

    1. 28 January 2022 — in progress: lucasrees.com (1)
    2. 21 January 2022 — Donald Judd Writings, Note from 25 Februar 1989
    3. 16 January 2022 — nocturnal sessions

  • 2021 12

    1. 31 December 2021 — “Create magic together” (author unknown)
    2. 31 December 2021 — Macklemore – Next Year (Live from Pioneer Square)
    3. 30 December 2021 — Arcadia
    4. 30 December 2021 — Stop Using PowerPoint, Harvard University Says It’s Damaging Your Brand And Your Company
    5. 29 December 2021 — Journey
    6. 28 December 2021 — Google Fonts Knowledge
    7. 27 December 2021 — Routine Rhythms!
    8. 27 December 2021 — Anne Rice about Kafka’s work ethic
    9. 26 December 2021 — Ingrid Michaelson & Zooey Deschanel – Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
    10. 23 December 2021 — Animated Knots
    11. 19 December 2021 — The giant phantom jelly
    12. 19 December 2021 — The Art of Disappearing
    13. 19 December 2021 — Ira Glass “The Gap”
    14. 19 December 2021 — Blip
    15. 17 December 2021 — Everything Everywhere All At Once (Trailer)
    16. 16 December 2021 — The Web Is Fucked
    17. 15 December 2021 — Fleet Foxes – A Very Lonely Solstice
    18. 10 December 2021 — Danielle Doby “ripples”

  • 2021 11

    1. 30 November 2021 — Everything is a Practice
    2. 29 November 2021 — The Howl & The Hum – Hostages (Live Alternate Version)
    3. 28 November 2021 — Virgil Abloh on process
    4. 27 November 2021 — Planktonium
    5. 24 November 2021 — Anna Lappé on spending money
    6. 23 November 2021 — Phoebe Bridgers – That Funny Feeling (Bo Burnham Cover)
    7. 22 November 2021 — Why Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?
    8. 21 November 2021 — Experience Japan Pictograms
    9. 21 November 2021 — OASIS
    10. 20 November 2021 — Jonathan Djob Nkondo – Comfort Zone
    11. 19 November 2021 — Alan Watts on playing
    12. 19 November 2021 — nomena
    13. 15 November 2021 — Why Tokyo Works
    14. 14 November 2021 — End Procrastination
    15. 13 November 2021 — The Sound of Dune
    16. 13 November 2021 — The Beach (Trailer)
    17. 7 November 2021 — ibi
    18. 7 November 2021 — übers Glauben, aus “Die Ermordung des Commendatore” von Haruki Murakami
    19. 4 November 2021 — Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books
    20. 3 November 2021 — übers Musikhören, aus “Die Ermordung des Commendatore” von Haruki Murakami
    21. 3 November 2021 — PaprTape
    22. 2 November 2021 — Minus

  • 2021 10

    1. 31 October 2021 — A whale saved my life | Close Encounters | BBC Earth
    2. 26 October 2021 — The Craft of “Kissa by Kissa” — Bookmaking in Japan
    3. 19 October 2021 — Une chorégraphie Originale par Sadeck Waff
    4. 18 October 2021 — Frank Chimero “The Good Room”
    5. 14 October 2021 — The Japanese words for “space” could change your view of the world
    6. 10 October 2021 — Ted Lasso
    7. 8 October 2021 — Paradise on earth according to Ian McEwan
    8. 5 October 2021 — OFFF 2021

  • 2021 9

    1. 28 September 2021 — Mark Nepo on listening
    2. 20 September 2021 — Everything is a Remix Part 1 (2021)
    3. 19 September 2021 — The digital death of collecting
    4. 17 September 2021 — Leonard Koren “Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers”
    5. 17 September 2021 — Zen garden – Pattern explorations
    6. 16 September 2021 — Kunzite – VISUALS
    7. 12 September 2021 — un état d’urgence | state of emergency
    8. 7 September 2021 — Shinrin Yoku
    9. 7 September 2021 — Shared Earth | Chilliwack River Clay
    10. 6 September 2021 — Malte Müller (WAF GMBH) über Programmierung und Gestaltung
    11. 4 September 2021 — Nature Track
    12. 2 September 2021 — Every Sport a Bowling Ball

  • 2021 8

    1. 6 August 2022 — Dieter Rams on good design (from a speech in 1976)
    2. 5 August 2022 — Designing for the last earth
    3. 1 August 2022 — Adam J. Kurtz; Let People Live
    4. 29 August 2021 — Alistair Smith on times of change
    5. 28 August 2021 — How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
    6. 24 August 2021 — MANIAC
    7. 10 August 2021 — The Constant Gardeners
    8. 1 August 2021 — Sanctuaries of Silence

  • 2021 7

    1. 26 July 2022 — Surveillance Capitalism I: How digital platforms watch, track & control you
    2. 26 July 2022 — Hyperlink maximalism
    3. 25 July 2022 — Yamaha – Stepping Out of the Slate
    4. 25 July 2022 — Acoustic Sounds Behind The Scenes
    5. 24 July 2022 — Always On: The Hidden Labor We Do Every Day
    6. 24 July 2022 — Oliver Burkeman’s last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life
    7. 24 July 2022 — Universal Everything for Hyundai Motorstudio – Ocean
    8. 22 July 2022 — Haruki Murakami in Norwegian Wood
    9. 17 July 2022 — Carl Sagen’s Pale Blue Dot
    10. 11 July 2022 — The Everything Manifesto
    11. 10 July 2022 — FKJ: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
    12. 9 July 2022 — People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One
    13. 8 July 2022 — Light & Magic | Official Trailer | Disney+
    14. 8 July 2022 — Dune | Otherworldly Wears
    15. 4 July 2022 — Quotes on time and filmmaking by Chantal Akerman
    16. 3 July 2022 — Letters to a Young Technologist
    17. 27 July 2021 — Fragile
    18. 23 July 2021 — Neil Gaiman “Make good art”
    19. 22 July 2021 — livMatS Pavilion
    20. 18 July 2021 — ‘AuT’ (logo, construction)
    21. 9 July 2021 — Xavier Rudd – Stoney Creek
    22. 7 July 2021 — Pina Bausch on fragility

  • 2021 6

    1. 30 June 2022 — The slow creep of mediocrity
    2. 27 June 2022 — Beyoncé – BREAK MY SOUL (Official Lyric Video)
    3. 27 June 2022 — Confessions of a Burnt Out Over-Achiever
    4. 26 June 2022 — The Art of Life
    5. 26 June 2022 — On getting home (author unknown)
    6. 26 June 2022 — earth.fm
    7. 26 June 2022 — Fishpeople | Lives Transformed by the Sea
    8. 6 June 2022 — Rebeka Arce on work and life
    9. 5 June 2022 — On The Beach (1985)
    10. 3 June 2022 — Digital Empires: Programmierte Ungerechtigkeit
    11. 3 June 2022 — The AI that creates any picture you want
    12. 2 June 2022 — Howard Zinn: To Be Hopeful in Bad Times
    13. 1 June 2022 — Bo Burnham – Inside Outtakes
    14. 30 June 2021 — Austin Kleon on Blogging as a forgiving medium
    15. 28 June 2021 — Adrienne Maree Brown on time
    16. 28 June 2021 — Born to be Mild
    17. 28 June 2021 — The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
    18. 18 June 2021 — camera test 01200420
    19. 17 June 2021 — All you need is 5 fonts
    20. 8 June 2021 — Thomas Szasz on learning
    21. 7 June 2021 — Above&Below – Aquateque
    22. 5 June 2021 — Bo Burnham – Inside

  • 2021 5

    1. 30 May 2022 — James Dyson Answers Design Questions
    2. 27 May 2022 — Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design
    3. 27 May 2022 — Phoebe Bridgers – Sidelines
    4. 27 May 2022 — Machiya, traditionelle Baukunst aus Japan | Stadt, Land, Kunst | ARTE
    5. 25 May 2022 — Bo Burnham on his body of work
    6. 20 May 2022 — Windows
    7. 15 May 2022 — Publish Something Online
    8. 13 May 2022 — Alligatoah feat. Felix Brummer – Beinebrechen (Live von “Friends of Alligatoah – Die Show”)
    9. 10 May 2022 — The Rise and Fall of Cultural Appropriation
    10. 6 May 2022 — Aldous Huxley on the Secret of Genius
    11. 5 May 2022 — LDT circular logo construction
    12. 5 May 2022 — The Beauty of Dune
    13. 4 May 2022 — Sigrid, Bring Me The Horizon – Bad Life
    14. 4 May 2022 — TE-LAB
    15. 26 May 2021 — ‘noiseandvoid’ (logo, clean version)
    16. 20 May 2021 — Dieter Rams über die Digita­­lisie­r­ung
    17. 20 May 2021 — ‘Virtuelle Kultur’ (logo, clean version)
    18. 18 May 2021 — ❤️☠️🤖
    19. 13 May 2021 — Frank Chimero on the things that nourish your work
    20. 11 May 2021 — The world needs a tech diet
    21. 4 May 2021 — Bruce Mau on knowing the answers
    22. 3 May 2021 — The erosion of personal ownership

  • 2021 4

    1. 26 April 2022 — Google Little Signals
    2. 24 April 2022 — Hiroshi Sugimoto on having a vision
    3. 16 April 2022 — AuT mood
    4. 16 April 2022 — Bo Burnham, Arcade Fire, and the Infinite Dread of the Internet
    5. 14 April 2022 — Dune (2021) VFX Breakdown
    6. 13 April 2022 — Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Trailer
    7. 12 April 2022 — Mary Oliver on joy
    8. 10 April 2022 — Nina Simone, HONNE – My Baby Just Cares For Me (HONNE Remix)
    9. 9 April 2022 — Beautiful Ramen packaging by 画面
    10. 5 April 2022 — noiseandvoid (logo, square variant, update 2)
    11. 3 April 2022 — Collected quotes by Claude Monet
    12. 28 April 2021 — Her
    13. 20 April 2021 — Gaspard Augé – Force Majeure
    14. 16 April 2021 — The Revolt
    15. 12 April 2021 — Accessibility Developer Guide
    16. 8 April 2021 — Wilson Minor “When We Build”
    17. 8 April 2021 — Web design as architecture
    18. 7 April 2021 — Monocle’s digital decency manifesto

  • 2021 3

    1. 29 March 2022 — Why making good work is no longer enough
    2. 29 March 2022 — We need more Calm Design
    3. 23 March 2022 — Why ‘The Batman’ Is So Beautiful
    4. 22 March 2022 — History Of Ideas: Wabi-sabi
    5. 10 March 2022 — ayh logo
    6. 10 March 2022 — KUMMER feat. Fred Rabe – Der letzte Song (Alles wird gut)
    7. 5 March 2022 — Alles war schön und nichts tat weh
    8. 31 March 2021 — Responsibility is resistance

  • 2021 2

    1. 27 February 2022 — 白 (white)
    2. 23 February 2022 — Continuum by Krista Kim
    3. 21 February 2022 — ‘noiseandvoid’ (logo, square variant)
    4. 14 February 2022 — 2016 Tony Awards Acceptance Speech from Lin-Manuel Miranda
    5. 12 February 2022 — Treeline
    6. 12 February 2022 — Moon drawings
    7. 10 February 2022 — Made To Measure
    8. 8 February 2022 — Beyond Human-Centered Design
    9. 3 February 2022 — Gisbert zu Knyphausen – Ich bin Freund von Klischees und funkelnden Sternen
    10. 5 February 2021 — Yanagi Soetsu, Maximen für Handwerker (1926)
    11. 4 February 2021 — Small Seasons

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